Improvement in methods of packing fish



o. ANDREWS.

METHOD 0F PACKING FISH.

v.Pmented Aug.29, 1876.

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UNITED STATES f PATENT OEEIoE.

OSCAR ANDREWS, OF GLOUCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR OF THREE- FOURTHS OF HIS RIGHT TO GEORGE FRIEND, GEORGEF. FRIEND, AND FRED. C. LANGSFORD, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN METHODS OF PACKING FISH..

ASpecification forming part of Letters Patent No. l 81,549, dated August 29, 1876; application filed July 8,1876.

To all whom it may concern Be it known thai-.1, OsoAR ANDREWS, of Gloucester, in the countyof Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and Improved Method of Packing Dried Fish in boxes for sale; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings. v

It has been customary in packing dried fish in small boxes for sale, to. lay it in in strips torn or otherwise taken from the fish with the grain,77 the said strips being laid length- Wise in the boxes, or else thrown in in hardly any order. By this method it has been impossible to prevent the air from coming in contact with the strips of lish, so that it isy moved. Fig. 2 is a transverse vertical section of the same, with the cover in place.

a represents the box, and b b represent the pieces of shpacked closely in the box, the grain running perpei'ldicularly.

By my meansof packing, great compactness is secured, so that the air is entirely excluded and cannot get between the piecesV of fish. Consequently the sh is not liable to dry up, or to turn red in the heat of summer, as is the case by the old method of packing loosely in strips. An additional advantage is that a square, solid package is produced.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, is-

The above described method of packing dried fish, consisting iu placing upright pieces of fish closely together in the box, the grain of thesaid pieces running perpendicularly to the bottom of the box, and said pieces havingl been originally out transversely from the fish, all substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore set forth.

OSCAR ANDREWS.

Witnesses: l

HENRY W. WILLLAMs, y B. W. WILLIAMS. 

